Corrie ten Boom
After the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, a Dutch watchmaker named Corrie ten Boom and her family built a secret room in their home to protect Jews until they could be transported to safety
In just four years, the ten Boom family helped rescue over 800 people.
Though ten Boom was arrested by the Nazis in 1944 — and placed in a concentration camp as punishment — she narrowly avoided being sent to the gas chambers and was released before World War II ended. Years later in 1971, she published a book about her experiences called "The Hiding Place" and began traveling all over the world to give lectures on the power of forgiveness. But then at one of her talks, a former Nazi guard who worked at the same camp that she was detained in approached her to ask for her forgiveness. And she decided to give it to him.
Corrie ten Boom
After the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, a Dutch watchmaker named Corrie ten Boom and her family built a secret room in their home to protect Jews until they could be transported to safety
In just four years, the ten Boom family helped rescue over 800 people.
Though ten Boom was arrested by the Nazis in 1944 — and placed in a concentration camp as punishment — she narrowly avoided being sent to the gas chambers and was released before World War II ended. Years later in 1971, she published a book about her experiences called "The Hiding Place" and began traveling all over the world to give lectures on the power of forgiveness. But then at one of her talks, a former Nazi guard who worked at the same camp that she was detained in approached her to ask for her forgiveness. And she decided to give it to him.